23 | cast&creative Music Director of the Atlanta Opera since 2010, Arthur Fagen is in great demand as a conductor of symphony and opera in Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States. He is a regular guest at the most prestigious opera houses, concert halls, and music festivals at home and abroad where he has an opera repertory of more than 90 works. Fagen conducted a new production of Turandot at The Atlanta Opera opening the 2007-08 season with enormous success and inaugurating the new opera house, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. He has ARTHUR FAGEN served as Principal Conductor in Kassel and Brunswick, CARL & SALLY GABLE as Chief Conductor of the Flanders Opera of Antwerp MUSIC DIRECTOR and Ghent, as Music Director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra and a member of the conducting staff of CONDUCTOR the Chicago Lyric Opera. Mr. Fagen is also Professor of (MARCH 5, 8, & 11) Orchestral Conducting at the Jacobs School of Music ATLANTA OPERA DEBUT at Indiana University. He was born in New York where LA TRAVIATA, 2005 he began his conducting studies with Laszlo Halasz. Further studies continued at the Curtis Institute under the guidance of Max Rudolf, and both at the Salzburg Mozarteum and with Hans Swarowsky. A former assistant of both Christoph von Dohnanyi (Frankfurt Opera) and James Levine (Metropolitan Opera), Fagen’s career has been marked by a string of notable appearances: from 1998 to 2001, he appeared regularly as Guest Conductor at the Vienna State Opera; he has conducted opera productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, Munich State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, New York City Opera, Theatre Capitole de Toulouse, Bordeaux Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart, New Israeli Opera, Baltimore Opera. On the concert podium, he has appeared with internationally known orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, the Czech Philharmonic, Munich Radio Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, to name but a few.
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